Description:
For many people who use a computer, knowing where to store growing amounts of data can become tricky.
You start off with one disk, run out of space, buy a bigger one etc. And if you have a camcorder you’ll be generating gigabytes of data for every Mini DV tape you record. Also, you may have a digital video recorder attached to your TV and wish to permanently keep some of the programmes/films you’ve recorded. Now you’re talking hundreds of gigabytes, if not terabytes of storage that are required to handle all this data.
And then there’s the problem of backups.
Here’s a series of articles that tackle this tricky subject, where the author describes the choices he made, the problems encountered and the solutions found.
1. Home Fileserver: What do I need?
2. Home Fileserver: Existing products
3. Home Fileserver: I’ll use ZFS
4. Home Fileserver: ZFS hardware
5. Home Fileserver: ZFS setup
6. Home Fileserver: Backups
7. Home Fileserver: Suspend
8. Home Fileserver: Trunking
